Beyond leaving women behind, the policy will lead to a dearth of much-needed workers in sectors like nursing, experts say.
Wednesday, the new system will concentrate on admitting immigrants who work in highly paid sectors such as tech, leaving in the policy’s wake people who work lower-wage jobs like home and senior care—typically women’s work.
“The new immigration system roundly fails to understand the lived experience of women, many of whom are prevented from accessing paid work by the weight of unpaid work—caring for children, older people and those with disabilities—that successive governments rely upon them to do,” Sophie Walker, the chief executive of the Young Women’s Trust, a British feminist organization,And for those women who do paid work in the care sector, jobs are “undervalued and underpaid,” Mandu Reid, the leader of...
“We need to shift the focus of our economy away from a reliance on cheap labor from Europe and instead concentrate on investment in technology and automation,” it said in a statement. “Employers will need to adjust.”
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